Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.